Today, speaking about the despicable and stomach-wrenching attacks by Islamists on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and our embassy in Cairo, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked: “How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction?”
That single line is the most damning indictment of Hillary Clinton’s State Department that could ever be penned. It demonstrates her complete lack of knowledge about the region, her failure to anticipate security threats, and worst of all, her willful ignorance about the Islamists that she and President Obama trusted to take over Libya and Egypt.
“How could this happen?”
Clinton, as Secretary of State, should know the answer to that question. That she didn’t anticipate even the remote possibility of the murder of our ambassador to Libya by her erstwhile friends led to his death. The Secretary of State is responsible for ensuring the security of our embassies and consulates and staff, as the State Department website plainly acknowledges:
The Secretary of State, and by extension, the Chief of Mission (COM), are responsible
for developing and implementing security policies and programs that
provide for the protection of all U.S. Government personnel (including
accompanying dependents) on official duty abroad. This mission is
executed through the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS). Personal and
facility protection are the most critical elements of the DS mission
abroad as they directly impact upon the Department’s ability to carry out its foreign policy. With
terrorist organizations and coalitions operating across international
borders, the threat of terrorism against U.S. interests remains great.
Therefore, any U.S. mission overseas can be a target even if identified
as being in a low-threat environment.
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